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The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) is the National Library of Germany.

Licensing

DNB is proud to make its title data set available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

Alle Titeldaten der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek und die Normdaten der Gemeinsamen Normdatei sind gemäß unserem Geschäftsmodell kostenfrei unter „Creative Commons Zero“-Bedingungen (CC0 1.0) zur freien Nutzung verfügbar.

"In accordance with our business model, all title data of the German National Library and the standards data of the Joint Standards File are available for free use under "Creative Commons Zero" conditions (CC0 1.0)."

Source: https://www.dnb.de/metadatendienste

Formats

Metadata is exposed via SRU and OAI-PMH, and made available as MARC 21, MARC21-XML and RDF (variety of serialisations), while some collections are also available in BIBFRAME (BIBFRAME 2.0?). As an extra offer, title data is provided in DNB Casual and CSV formats.

• More on DNB standards & formats: https://www.dnb.de/EN/Professionell/Standardisierung/Standards/standards_node.html
• Dedicated Linked Data service: https://www.dnb.de/EN/Professionell/Metadatendienste/Datenbezug/LDS/lds_node.html

Further reading

DINI AG KIM, G. L. (n.d.). Empfehlungen zur Öffnung bibliothekarischer Daten—Dini-ag-kim—Deutsche Nationalbibliothek—Wiki. Retrieved 20 November 2020, from https://wiki.dnb.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=45419980

Meyer-Heß, A., & Rupp, J. (2016). What happens if you publish the National Bibliography under a CC0 license? – Experiences of the German National Library (DNB). http://library.ifla.org/1414/

Svenson, L. (n.d.). Licensing Library and Authority Data Under CC0: The DNB Experience. https://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/odw13_submission_57.pdf